what did the nourth think about the dread scott case?

Question

the dread scott case in 1857

Answer 1

The case horrified northerers. Congress had never fully dealt with the issue of whether or not a slave who reaches a northern state was free. This case, however, answered the question by stating categorically that slaves were property no matter where they were. If a man purchased a horse in Kentucky and rode it to Ohio, the horse would still be his property. And in Dred Scott, the court made the same ruling for slaves.

By stating that a slave had no rights, the Supreme Court opened the gates to slavery entering the northern free states. Under the Dred Scott ruling, a southerner could now legally purchase slaves in the south and transport them to work for him in the north; and there was nothing any free state could do to stop him. This ruling was catalytic to the Civil War.

Answer 2

The North believed the Dred Scott case turned back the clock from before the period of the American Revolution. It eliminated the effects of the Compromise of 1850 and further instilled the idea that the South could expand slavery. It also made it beyond doubt the signature move of the Republican party under the guises of Abraham Lincoln who took enormous mileage out of this issue including to the ascendancy to the Presidency.

Answer 3

The North reacted to the Dred Scott case in many ways. Many, like Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant were outraged, which in the long run helped the antislavery cause.
New York Abolitionist John F.A. Sanford bought Dredd Scott for the very purpose of taking his case to court. Thus began the eleven-year (!) legal battle of Dredd Scott v. Sandford, which helped to change the way many people would have thought of slavery and the question of its legality.
Dredd Scott and his family were freed by his abolitionist owner after the ruling. Dredd Scott died the year after.